Every tab you close, kept as a reading list.
Pile is a free Chrome extension that saves each tab the moment you close it, so you can close tabs, and whole windows, without losing anything. Search them, triage them, export them. Everything stays in your browser.
What it does
Close tabs freely. Come back to them on purpose.
Catches every tab
Each tab is saved the moment it closes. Tabs lost to a browser quit are picked up from Recently Closed on the next launch.
Windows stay together
Close a window of fifty tabs and they're kept as one group, not fifty unrelated rows.
Duplicates folded
Tracking parameters are stripped, so the same article closed four times is one row marked “closed 4×”.
Search and filter
Search titles and links, filter by site, and sort by date, site, title or how often you closed it.
Triage mode
One link at a time, full screen. Open it, keep it, mark it done, delete it or skip, all from the keyboard.
Export anytime
Markdown grouped by site, raw JSON, or a bookmarks file any browser can import.
Keyboard
Built to be driven from the keyboard.
- / search
- jk move
- o open in background
- s keep
- e mark done
- x delete
- u undo
- t triage mode
- AltShiftP open Pile
Private by design
Your reading list never leaves your computer.
Pile stores what you close in your browser's local storage, on this machine. It has no host permissions, makes no network requests, and has no account, no server and no analytics. Site icons come from the browser's own cache.